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GIBBNS G.' HIOKMAN, OF GOATESVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

Letters Patent No. 75,014, lated farch 3, 1858.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOTTLES.

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To ALL WHoM 1T 'MAY CONCERN:

Beit known that I, GIBBONS G. HIGKMAN, of Ooatesville', in the county of Chester, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement iny Bottles; and I do hereby declare the following to he a full, clear., and exact description ofthe seme, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which is made a. part of this specification, and which represents a vertical section of a. bottle, illustrating my invention.

My improved bottle is provided with the customary neck', B, for the reception of a. cork, C, or other stopper, and muy be made in any common form. While the glass is in a. plastic condition, I form, in the lower part of the bottle, by means of an iron instrument of proper shape, :t conica-l depression, D, projecting obliquely inward and downward, in the form of o' converging tube, to n point very near the bottom of t-he bottle, and pierced at its extremity with a small aperture, UZ.-

It will be apparent that ii' thcvbottle A be llerl with any liquid, and its neck B closed ivith a cork, C, the

external pressure of'the atmosphere will prevent the escape ofthe liquid through the outletdfilpon the familiar princi-ple of' the bird-fountain; but my particular irnprrwement consists in the employment of a conical tube projecting inward from the side of' the bottle, in snch'an oblique direction and in such close proximity to the bottom, that however the bottle may be shaken or suddenly turned in any .lirectionVuo air con thereby be caused to pass from the tub'e D to'the interior of the bottle, and consequently no liquid can escupe; but by introducing through the tube'D any thin or pointed instrument, sch as a. wire, if the bottle housed for oil, or

n pen, ifit bo used for ink, the requisite supply ofthe liquid is readily token out for use.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, amldesire to secure by Letters Potent, is- 'The conical tube D, projecting obliquely downward and inward from the side of the bottle A, to a point very near the bottom thereof, as e'nd for the purposes shown und described.

G. G. HIGKMAN.

`Witnesses:

OoTAvIUs KNIGHT, J. E. M. BOWEN. 

